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The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has expressed deep concern over the recent arrests of women and girls in Kabul for allegedly violating the Taliban’s dress code, Khaama …

Japanese Ambassador in Kabul, Takayoshi Kuromaya, has called on the Taliban government in Afghanistan to reopen schools and universities for girls, particularly in medical fields, warning that the continued ban …

The Taliban has banned chess in Afghanistan due to religious concerns, continuing its opposition to various forms of entertainment and sports, Khaama Press reported. As per reports, the decision was …

Taliban officials on Sunday urged Pakistan to prepare a joint mechanism for the gradual repatriation of refugees. Taliban officials further said that forced deportation is in the interests of neither …

Taliban has announced it will close all national and foreign nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) employing women in Afghanistan. In a letter shared on X, Taliban-led Ministry of Economy warned that failure …

Afghanistan’s Taliban forces targeted “several points” in Pakistan on Saturday, Taliban said, days after Pakistani aircraft carried out aerial bombardments inside the country, as per Al Jazeera. The statement, which …

With the enactment of new laws on “vice and virtue” by a government ministry that forbids women’s voices and bare faces from public life, women’s lives in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan have …

United Nations Chief Antonio Guterres expressed deep concern over the situation in Afghanistan, likening it to some of the most egregious systems of oppression in recent history. Sharing a post …

As Afghan women continue to remain deprived of their basic rights, United Nations officials have once again raised concerns about the situation of women in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. During …

With the two years of Taliban reign, experts deliberate whether Afghanistan would remain a state providing safe havens to terror factions in the years ahead. Some apprehensions were confirmed, when …

Pakistan is using “threats, abuse, detention and coercion” to throw out Afghan refugees as the deadline for them to voluntarily leave the country expired on November 1. Alarmed with plight …

The Taliban interim government in Afghanistan has slammed Pakistan’s decsion to expel refugees as  “inhumane, unfair and barbaric”. Interim Defence Minister, Mullah Yaqub Mujahid, also said that Islamabad’s decision will adversly …

Afghans are facing yet another crisis in Pakistan. Irked over Afghan Taliban’s refusal to rein in Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) cadres operating from Afghan soil and increasing suicide attacks in the country, …

A miffed Russia has expressed its concerns about “attempts by extra-regional players to become more active in the Afghan direction” during the fifth meeting of the Moscow format of consultations …

The Afghan embassy in India has suspended all operations after the ambassador and other senior diplomats left the country for Europe and the United States where they gained asylum, three …

Escalating tension with the neighbouring Taliban government, Pakistan has decided to evict all of Afghan refugees – numbering 1.1 million. The move, the first major policy decision of the interim …

A new report by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) says that the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan has “emboldened” the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terror group due to which it has …

In the ever-shifting sands of the Af-Pak theatre, the Taliban has urged the US to not create obstacles in the way of recognition of the regime. Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid …

The recently concluded 22nd summit of the SCO Council of Heads of States, though held in a virtual format, gushed too many winds in the geopolitical space. The SCO summit …

The frenzied exit of US troops in 2021 brought the Chinese rushing in to fill the vaccume in Afghanistan. The Chinese government and businessmen were keen to extract lithium, which …

The verbal war between Pakistan and Afghanistan over terrorism and the implementation of the Doha Agreement intensified over the weekend. In a tweet on Sunday, Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Asif …